Gogebic Taconite, the company behind a controversial mining project in northern Wisconsin, will be closing the company offices in Hurley. Gogebic Taconite's president released a statement saying they could not "justify maintaining an office in Hurley without a prospect of immediate action." We speak with a reporter familiar with the...

In an extended edition of the Friday News Roundup, our assistant news director gets the story behind a handgun bill that received a hearing in the state Assembly this week. Then, we talk to a couple of WPR reporters covering Right to Work legislation and the latest on DNR funding.

Reporting Friday from the U.S. Capitol building, the National Journal’s Lauren Fox said that President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration continues to be a sticking point and a wedge issue for Republicans as they continue to debate a spending bill to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland...

For many people, holding out your arm simply isn't enough anymore when it comes to taking "selfies" — increasingly, people are buying devices called a "selfie stick" to mount their phone on. However, art museums and other institutions are shying away the selfie stick.

We all know that exercise is good for us. We didn’t evolve to be couch potatoes. Back in the day, in the African savanna, those who sat got eaten. Sitting is a relatively new phenomenon of our industrialized world. In the 1900s, only those who were rich could sit. The...

First responders could get more training and resources to prepare for rail accidents in their community under a new bill introduced in Congress. The RESPONSE Act , or Railroad Emergency Services Preparedness, Operational Needs, and Safety Evaluation Act, would create a FEMA subcommittee that, in one year would, recommend how...

The state held public hearings this week in Milwaukee and Green Bay on the proposed $9.1 billion acquisition of the energy company Integrys — the parent company of the Green Bay utility Wisconsin Public Service Corp. — by Milwaukee's We Energies.

A wildlife advocacy group just released the documentary "Political Predator." We'll get the group's take on how the wolf hunt of recent years came to be and how wolves in Wisconsin may have been politicized over the years.

Brendan Sasso, a technology correspondent for National Journal, says that the Federal Communications Commission's decision to uphold net neutrality is, to some extent, an answer to the question of who controls the Internet.

A documentary from the group Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf that makes the case against wolf hunting in Wisconsin has been released at a time when some members of Congress, like Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin, are proposing taking a segment of the gray wolf population off of the Endangered...

A northern Wisconsin lawmaker is seeking support for a bill aimed at bolstering the state’s forest products industry. Democratic state Rep. Nick Milroy of South Range said the bill would require the state to give a slight preference to Wisconsin-harvested wood when seeking low bids to buy lumber under contract...